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Lot 17
  • 17

A German Silver Box-Form Hanukah Lamp, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Kramer, Nuremberg, 1805-08

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on front rim
  • silver
  • length 5 7/8 in.
  • 15cm
of narrow rectangular form raised on four tall hoofed feet headed by rams heads, detachable servant light

Condition

casing for hinge pin partly missing otherwise good
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Catalogue Note

An etrog container and pair of rimonim by this maker are in The Jewish Museum, New York.  A similar box form Hanukah lamp for Neusatz is in the Stieglitz Collection in The Israel Museum (see Chaya Benjamin catalogue No. 138).